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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Dengue fever accounts for third of all cases of contagious disease contracted abroad: KCDC
Dengue fever accounted for a third of all contagious diseases contracted by people entering South Korea from abroad, a state report said Sunday.According to the findings by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were a total of 529 people diagnosed with infectious disease in 2017, with 171 cases involving the fever caused by the dengue virus transmitted by mosquitoes. (Yonhap)The disease is mostly found in tropical climates and is not indigenous to South Korea.The KCDC said
Dec. 10, 2018
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Normal operations resume on KTX Gangneung line 3 days after derailment accident
Normal operations resumed on the KTX bullet train Gangneung line three days after a derailment accident, the Korea Railroad Corp. said Monday.The public railway operator said the first train departed Gangneung, about 240 kilometers east of Seoul, at 5:30 a.m. (Yonhap)The normalization comes after a KTX train with 198 passengers that was left for Seoul derailed five minutes after leaving Gangneung station early Saturday morning. The incident resulted in 16 people getting injured. Since the derail
Dec. 10, 2018
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Cause of derailed KTX train investigated
A railroad switch system error likely caused the recent derailment of a KTX train, a joint team of the Transport Ministry and Korail officials said Sunday.The tentative conclusion came after the team inspected the derailment site Saturday. According to the authorities, the Korail control center detected an error in the railroad switch system around the South Gangneung intersection at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, soon before the derailment took place.A Seoul-bound KTX bullet train derails shortly after de
Dec. 9, 2018
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Land minister apologizes over KTX derailment
GANGNEUNG -- South Korea's Land Minister Kim Hyun-mee apologized Sunday over the derailment of a KTX bullet train that injured over a dozen passengers in the country's northeast. "I express my deepest regret and apologies to the public for letting an accident like this happen again," she told reporters. (Yonhap)Kim paid a visit to the accident site in Gangneung, about 240 km east of Seoul, where recovery work was under way to restore the rails damaged in the derailment of a Seoul-bound KTX from
Dec. 9, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Former Gwangju mayor arrives in Korea for probe over fake first lady scandal
Former Gwangju Mayor Yoon Jang-hyun, who allegedly had engaged in a fake ex-first lady scam, arrived in Korea early Sunday morning for a prosecution investigation. Prosecutors seized Yoon’s mobile phone at the airport and ordered him to appear for questioning Monday morning.Yoon had been in Nepal for a medical volunteer program since Nov. 16. The program ended on Nov. 21, but Yoon had not returned to Korea and did not respond to the prosecution’s summons. According to the Gwangju District Prosec
Dec. 9, 2018
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Recovery work continues on derailed KTX train site amid cold weather
Work is continuing Sunday to restore the damaged rails after a bullet train derailed and injured over a dozen passengers in the northeastern province of Gangwon, officials said. A Seoul-bound KTX with 198 passengers aboard went off the tracks minutes after departing from Gangneung, about 240 km east of Seoul early Saturday. A total of 15 passengers suffered minor injuries. (Yonhap)About 300 personnel have been mobilized for the operations to remove the locomotive and passenger cars that broke a
Dec. 9, 2018
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Seoul-bound KTX train derails, 15 injured
A KTX bullet train bound for Seoul derailed Saturday shortly after departure, injuring more than a dozen passengers, authorities said.No deaths were reported and the Korea Railroad Corp., the operator of the train, said the accident seems to be attributable to a rail problem caused by freezing weather. (Yonhap)The train, with 198 passengers aboard, went off the tracks at around 7:35 a.m., minutes after departing from Gangneung, a city located 237 kilometers east of Seoul. It was running at about
Dec. 8, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Ex-ranking Army officer under probe jumps to death: police
A retired former Army general under a prosecution investigation on illegal surveillance charges jumped off a building in an apparent suicide, police said Friday. Lee Jae-su, former chief of the Defense Security Command, the military intelligence unit, appears to have thrown himself off a building located in the eastern Seoul district of Songpa at 2:48 p.m., police said. Former chief of the Defense Security CommandLee Jae-su (Yonhap)A suicide note was found at the scene. Lee’s body has been trans
Dec. 7, 2018
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Drunk driver who killed soldier on leave admits to charges against him
A man surnamed Park, who is accused of killing 22-year-old soldier Yoon Chang-ho while driving under the influence, admitted to the charges against him at his trial Friday. In the first inquests into the death, presided over by Justice Kim Dong-wook at the Busan District Court, prosecutors said Park was indicted on charges of killing Yoon in front of a crosswalk in Haeundae, Busan, while driving a BMW with blood alcohol content of 0.181 percent on Sept. 25.Park briefly said, “I agree,” when the
Dec. 7, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Dismissal of warrants for ex-justices in power abuse scandal raises questions
The court’s rejection of warrants for two former Supreme Court justices allegedly involved in a massive power abuse scandal on Friday raised questions on whether the judiciary was seeking to contain the damage by pinning all the blame on one person.(Yonhap)Two judges at the Seoul Central District Court on Friday denied prosecutors’ requests for warrants to detain retired Justices Ko Young-han and Park Byong-dae, saying that charges against them were not sufficiently substantiated to warrant a pr
Dec. 7, 2018
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Webtoon pirate ordered to pay huge compensation to victims
The operator of a South Korean pirate website has been ordered to pay a compensation of 2 billion won ($1.79 million) to two domestic webtoon providers for stealing their content for years.The Seoul Central District Court ruled that the operator of Bamtoki, a pirate website, should pay 1 billion won each to Naver Webtoon, an affiliate of South Korea's largest portal Naver, and Lezhin Entertainment, a webtoon content startup, for stealing about 90,000 webtoons from them since 2016. (Yonhap)The Ba
Dec. 7, 2018
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NK calls for full implementation of inter-Korean summit deals
A North Korean state propaganda outlet called Friday for full implementation of inter-Korean summit agreements amid scant progress in economic cooperation between the two Koreas and no signs of easing sanctions from the US. (Yonhap)Uriminzokkiri, the external propaganda website, said the two Koreas should accelerate their push for reconciliation by fully implementing the two summit agreements reached between their leaders earlier this year."A series of events is taking place between North and S
Dec. 7, 2018
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Govt. to lower child-rearing expenses to tackle low birthrate
South Korea on Friday announced a set of measures to remove the fundamental causes cited for drop in country's birthrate, including the high cost of child-rearing and increasing number of people opting not to have children.The roadmap was finalized as Kim Sang-hee, vice-chairwoman of a presidential committee aimed at tackling the low birthrate and aging society, Health and Welfare Minister Park Neung-hoo and other ranking officials met earlier in the day to discuss critical issues facing the cou
Dec. 7, 2018
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Cold wave sweeps through Korea, suspending all ferry services at Incheon port
With strong winds and cold wave warnings in effect in some parts of Incheon on Friday, all passenger ferry services linking Incheon to islands have been canceled. On Friday, a strong-wind warning was issued for most parts of the eastern and western coasts of Korea.According to the Incheon Weather Station, the temperature in Incheon dropped to minus 7.7 degrees C at 9 a.m. Friday, with the wind chill temperature at minus 14.5 C.Strong winds at speeds of 14 to 20 meters per second were blowing Fri
Dec. 7, 2018
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Fire at shelter kills 260 animals
A fire at an animal shelter broke out early Friday morning in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, killing some 260 cats and dogs. The fire started at around 2:10 a.m. Friday, and was extinguished by regional fire authorities in three hours. Of the some 400 dogs and 100 cats housed at the facility, around 180 dogs and 80 cats died in the blaze. The fire burnt half of the shelter, incurring an estimated 26 million won ($23,200) of damage. Fire at a shelter in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province killed some 260 cat
Dec. 7, 2018
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Drunk man arrested for public nudity outside National Assembly
A middle-aged man has been arrested for running around naked in front of the National Assembly building, police said Friday.The 61-year-old man was spotted heavily drunk and walking around naked in freezing temperatures in front of the National Assembly around 7:15 a.m. Seoul was forecast to be minus 10 degrees Celsius at that time. (Yonhap)Yeongdeungpo Police dispatched officers to the area after security guards at the National Assembly reported the man. According to police, the man was found m
Dec. 7, 2018
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Subway trains delayed during morning rush hour
At 7:58 a.m. on Friday morning, a Subway Line No. 8 train headed for Amsa Station in Seoul came to a stop at Sujin Station in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Subway operation on Subway Line No. 8 was delayed for 20 minutes due to an electrical failure. (Yonhap)At 8:16 a.m., 18 minutes later, Seoul Metro moved the broken train to a subway train garage, and resumed operations using another train. The accident caused inconvenience for commuters on their way to work.Subway Line No. 7 service was delaye
Dec. 7, 2018
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Hyundai union cancels planned strike Friday on halted car joint venture talks
Unionized workers at Hyundai Motor Co. have cancelled their planned strike on Friday in protest against the company's plan to invest in a local car manufacturing joint venture sought by a municipal government, the union said. Hyundai workers staged a four-hour strike at domestic plants on Thursday and were planning to hold another four-hour walkout. (Yonhap)"If the company resumes talks with the Gwangju municipal government to push forward the car joint venture plan, we will make all possible ef
Dec. 7, 2018
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#MeToo, feminism dominated Twitter in 2018
The year 2018 has been a year to remember for South Koreans. They watched the historic summit between the two Koreas in April and also saw the minimum wage rise to 7,530 won ($6.73). Unprecedented levels of fine dust put the environmental authorities on alert. But according to Twitter, it was feminism and the #MeToo movement in schools that dominated the national dialogue, at least on the social media platform. On Wednesday, the top 10 most-tweeted social issues in Korea were revealed as f
Dec. 6, 2018
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Court sentences Syrian to 3 years in jail for promoting IS
Incheon District Court on Thursday sentenced a Syrian to three years in jail for violating the anti-terrorism law. The defendant was found guilty of inciting people to join the Islamic State group. The 33-year-old Syrian, who worked at a junkyard in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, entered Korea 10 years ago and applied for asylum. Although the asylum bid was rejected, the Syrian was granted a humanitarian stay permit and traveled between Korea and Syria. (Yonhap)According to the court, the Syrian
Dec. 6, 2018